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Hope for transplant patients
By Cai Wenjun |
July 19, 2010, Monday
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MEDICAL experts in Shanghai are developing a novel therapy that will allow organ transplant patients to take less anti-rejection drugs, medical experts told an international forum in the city yesterday.
The therapy works by reorganizing regulatory T cells, which are responsible for most immune system reactions, thus a patient's immune system will be less likely to attack the transplanted organ.
Currently, patients require anti-rejection drugs to survive after receiving an organ transplant. The drugs are expensive, have strong side effects and need to be taken for a long time.
According to Dr Fan Hui-min from Shanghai East Hospital's department of cardiology, regulatory T cells have been receiving a great deal of attention in the international medical field. The cells are capable of inhibiting most types of immune responses by not only maintaining immunological self-tolerance but also by limiting responses to foreign objects to the body.
The therapy works by reorganizing regulatory T cells, which are responsible for most immune system reactions, thus a patient's immune system will be less likely to attack the transplanted organ.
Currently, patients require anti-rejection drugs to survive after receiving an organ transplant. The drugs are expensive, have strong side effects and need to be taken for a long time.
According to Dr Fan Hui-min from Shanghai East Hospital's department of cardiology, regulatory T cells have been receiving a great deal of attention in the international medical field. The cells are capable of inhibiting most types of immune responses by not only maintaining immunological self-tolerance but also by limiting responses to foreign objects to the body.
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